A.H. McBride, Jailer – Being sworn saith

About ½ past 6 on Sunday a week ago last Sunday I was walking along First St and saw a Chinaman on the logs at Mr. Cunthorp’s [?] Mill. He was jumping from one to another and some Chinaman on the road were talking to him. I met [?] Carpenter and spoke to him for a short time when I heard a Chinaman shouting. I said to Carpenter ‘The Chinaman has fallen in’, in both [illegible] the place and saw a Chinaman struggling in the water about 14 or 15 feet from the corner of the Armstrong’s Wharf. A Chinaman threw a plank in but deceased did not grasp it. He gradually sank out of sight. Mr. A. Ewen offered a canoe to an Indian but the water was so deep that he seemed afraid to go in and try to get the body.

Taken on oath & acknowledged this 1st day of August A.D. 1877 before me C.N. Trew

Arthur H. McBride